Salem – MMO Fallout

Salem Enters Full Release

Mortal Moments Inc has announced the launch of Salem, the perma-death historical sandbox. In 2013, Paradox Interactive announced that it was relinquishing its position as publisher for the sandbox MMO, leaving Seatribe to go at it alone. Last year, Mortal Moments took over management of Salem, merging the servers into one and resetting characters.

Yesterday’s relaunch also marked the introduction of a new expedition.

In honor of Salem’s release on June 19th, a new Expedition is launching! Expeditions are separate, fresh servers where players find new content to bring back to the home server of Providence. A lot has changed in the last year, and the path to greatness has never been more treacherous, exciting, or fun!

Check out the official website for more details.

Salem Resetting Characters and Merging Servers

Hang on to your britches, pilgrims. We haven’t heard from Salem in quite a while, so today’s news probably isn’t all that surprising. In order to consolidate players and implement a new map generation system, the folks at Seatribe have announced the game will be wiped and restarted under a new server.

The current server architecture is overestablished compared to our actual needs. Long term it is not feasible for us to keep running multiple servers dropping to as low as single digit populations during off-hours. A reset allows us to concentrate population to one, cardinal server, which appears more in line with the game’s actual needs.

Several players have welcomed the upcoming wipe, noting that a power disparity has allowed a select few to essentially take over servers and kill anyone who might present a threat or progress in any meaningful way. Earlier last year, Paradox Interactive cut involvement with Salem, returning full development back to Seatribe.

(Source: Salem)